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Lot 346
WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Brideshead Revisited. London: Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Closed11 July 2018
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WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Brideshead Revisited. London: Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Presentation copy of Brideshead Revisited, inscribed by the author to Gaston Palewski in 1960, urging him to ‘remain a diplomat and not get mixed up in politics’. Palewski was a Free French colonel on Charles de Gaulle’s staff in London. During the war, he began a famous and passionate affair with Nancy Mitford which continued until her death in 1973.
Octavo (185 x 120mm). Original blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, dust-jacket (jacket slightly darkened, small chip at foot of spine).
[sold with, loosely inserted:] — Autograph postcard, a presentation note to ‘Col’ [Gaston Palewski] from ‘Meg and me’, [Piers Court, Gloucestershire], n.d. Two lines on headed postcard, 87 x 139mm. [and:] — Tod in Hollywood. Zurich: Verlag der Arche, 1950. Octavo, dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author and with the majority of leaves cut through apparently to house a smuggled pair of sugar tongs. [and:] — A Little Learning. [London:] Chapman & Hall, 1964. Octavo, dust-jacket. First edition, presented by the author to Nancy Mitford.
Presentation copy of Brideshead Revisited, inscribed by the author to Gaston Palewski in 1960, urging him to ‘remain a diplomat and not get mixed up in politics’. Palewski was a Free French colonel on Charles de Gaulle’s staff in London. During the war, he began a famous and passionate affair with Nancy Mitford which continued until her death in 1973.
Octavo (185 x 120mm). Original blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, dust-jacket (jacket slightly darkened, small chip at foot of spine).
[sold with, loosely inserted:] — Autograph postcard, a presentation note to ‘Col’ [Gaston Palewski] from ‘Meg and me’, [Piers Court, Gloucestershire], n.d. Two lines on headed postcard, 87 x 139mm. [and:] — Tod in Hollywood. Zurich: Verlag der Arche, 1950. Octavo, dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author and with the majority of leaves cut through apparently to house a smuggled pair of sugar tongs. [and:] — A Little Learning. [London:] Chapman & Hall, 1964. Octavo, dust-jacket. First edition, presented by the author to Nancy Mitford.
WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966). Brideshead Revisited. London: Chapman & Hall, 1952.
Presentation copy of Brideshead Revisited, inscribed by the author to Gaston Palewski in 1960, urging him to ‘remain a diplomat and not get mixed up in politics’. Palewski was a Free French colonel on Charles de Gaulle’s staff in London. During the war, he began a famous and passionate affair with Nancy Mitford which continued until her death in 1973.
Octavo (185 x 120mm). Original blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, dust-jacket (jacket slightly darkened, small chip at foot of spine).
[sold with, loosely inserted:] — Autograph postcard, a presentation note to ‘Col’ [Gaston Palewski] from ‘Meg and me’, [Piers Court, Gloucestershire], n.d. Two lines on headed postcard, 87 x 139mm. [and:] — Tod in Hollywood. Zurich: Verlag der Arche, 1950. Octavo, dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author and with the majority of leaves cut through apparently to house a smuggled pair of sugar tongs. [and:] — A Little Learning. [London:] Chapman & Hall, 1964. Octavo, dust-jacket. First edition, presented by the author to Nancy Mitford.
Presentation copy of Brideshead Revisited, inscribed by the author to Gaston Palewski in 1960, urging him to ‘remain a diplomat and not get mixed up in politics’. Palewski was a Free French colonel on Charles de Gaulle’s staff in London. During the war, he began a famous and passionate affair with Nancy Mitford which continued until her death in 1973.
Octavo (185 x 120mm). Original blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, dust-jacket (jacket slightly darkened, small chip at foot of spine).
[sold with, loosely inserted:] — Autograph postcard, a presentation note to ‘Col’ [Gaston Palewski] from ‘Meg and me’, [Piers Court, Gloucestershire], n.d. Two lines on headed postcard, 87 x 139mm. [and:] — Tod in Hollywood. Zurich: Verlag der Arche, 1950. Octavo, dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author and with the majority of leaves cut through apparently to house a smuggled pair of sugar tongs. [and:] — A Little Learning. [London:] Chapman & Hall, 1964. Octavo, dust-jacket. First edition, presented by the author to Nancy Mitford.
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